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AfricaPress-Kenya:<\/strong> French financial prosecutors on Wednesday sought a four-year jail sentence for Lamine Diack, the former head of athletics\u2019 governing body, on trial for corruption and money laundering linked to a Russian doping scandal.<\/p>\n

They told the three judges that Diack and his son, Papa Massata Diack, were at the heart of a scheme that solicited bribes worth millions of euros from Russian athletes to cover up failed doping tests and allow them to continue competing.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was corruption at all levels,\u201d public prosecutor Arnaud de Laguiche said in closing remarks.<\/p>\n

The prosecutors also said Diack obtained $1.5 million of Russian funds while negotiating sponsorship and television rights to help finance Macky Sall\u2019s campaign for the 2012 Senegal presidential election, in exchange for slowing anti-doping procedures.<\/p>\n

The maximum sentence the prosecution could have sought was 10 years.<\/p>\n

In his testimony, Diack, 87, said he had not sought to protect the athletes, some of whom later participated in the London 2012 Olympics, but to ensure the cases did not come to public attention at once and cause a scandal.<\/p>\n

The finances of World Athletics, then called the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), were at the time in bad shape and slowing the doping cases helped save a sponsorship deal with Russian bank VTB, Diack said.<\/p>\n

The prosecutor said Diack became used to \u201cliving like an emperor\u201d.<\/p>\n

The prosecution sought a five-year prison sentence for Papa Massata Diack, who fled France for his native Senegal after the French investigation began and was tried in absentia.<\/p>\n

A lawyer for World Athletics told the court the body sought 41.2 million euros in damages: \u201cThey destroyed athletics\u2019 honour. The big-time sponsors have gone. We had to jettison the IAAF brand.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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